Theres a number of worrying statistics which point to problems up ahead . Average age of marriage , buying a house and having kids have all gone way up in richer countries. Fair enough, productivity increases and automation might help in some respects ,Germany and the other big economies will stand to benefit more than little places like Ireland .What we've seen here is manufacturing leaving our shores and more and more IT call centers draughted in to take up the slack, take advantage of big tax breaks and loose regulation of their nefarious data aggregation and marketing schemes .
In anticipation of whats going to happen ,the government here in Ireland have already started minimising their future liabilities as far as social security is concerned. Emerging economies are fast ballooning while the old West looks like its in a terminal nose dive ,
were under replacement by younger newer carbon units ,more hungry for work and used to more basic conditions .
Department of social welfare here now stands accused of racial profiling over its actions relating to the Pandemic unemployment payment (PuP) .Flights to certain like countries like Romania were targeted for checks on passengers who were claiming the payment , its all adding upto another huge data protection ,privacy and trust clusterf#*k for the department.
Its was an Irish law student who was legitamately trying bring his wife there to see her family in Romania flagged up what was going on .
The amalgamation of survailence capitolism ,law enforcement and welfare systems gives dealing with government departments here a real 'secret police' flavour ,
There was outrage sparked lately when the minister for health suggested laws giving police new powers to enter private property without warrant on public health grounds could be brought in , in the end even the association of police sargents said they didnt want the extra powers, of course civil liberties were up in arms with finally the Taoiseach being forced to concede it was never going to happen . In the end of the day they would have been relying on one neighbour snitching on another which in certain parts of town could get your sh!t burned down to the ground very easily . In some ways little has changed , the cops have tons of survailence and intel at their finger tips much of it not warranted or accounted for openly so they still require a donkey to pin the tail on for legal coverage. Recently a head of a major Dublin crime family accused the police of complicity in the murder of members of his family and its very easy to believe thats true with how the tech is being used .